Moscow. November 18th. INTERFAX – The All-Russian Social and State Movement of Children and Youth (RDDM) has opened a vote on choosing a new name for the organization, the movement’s press service reported on Friday.

“From November 18 to December 3, everyone can take part and cast their vote for the most desired name using a private chat on the page of the Russian Movement of Children and Youth on social networks VKontakte,” the statement said.

A choice of 10 names was chosen, “proposed children and important experts” according to the results of the All-Russian competition of co-authors of the RDDM: “Russian Movement of Children and Youth”, “Movement of Schoolchildren and Youth”, “Movement named after Gagarin”, “Pioneers”, “New Generation “. “, “Youth”, “Patriots”, “The Future of Russia”, “Young Russia” and “Big Change”.

Voting will last until December 3, when the results will be announced.

The law on the establishment of the President of the Russian Movement of Children and Youth of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin took office on July 14 this year. According to the document, the organization is a voluntary self-governing all-Russian public-state movement, which includes assistance in the upbringing of children, their orientation, and leisure activities.

Participants of the RDDM can become minors studying under the program of all levels of education and “other persons recognized by the charter of the movement.” In addition, as teachers involved in the education of younger participants.

According to the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergey Kravtsov, the RDDM includes all organizations that unite schoolchildren, including Yunarmiya and Big Change.

According to the list of instructions of the President of the Russian Federation published on September 29, since 2023, the RDDM has to receive 21.35 billion rubles from the budget annually for its activities.